Johnny Sirocco

Johnny Sirocco (1831-1862) was an associate of the Natives gang who was also a close friend of Amsterdam Vallon, the son of the late Dead Rabbits boss Priest Vallon. Sirocco later betrayed Vallon to the Natives due to jealousy, but he was killed by Natives boss William Cutting after he decided to help Vallon escape from Cutting.

Biography
Johnny Sirocco was born in 1831 to a family of Catholic Irish-Americans, and he became a friend of Amsterdam Vallon as a child. After Amsterdam's father Priest Vallon, leader of the Dead Rabbits, was killed in a battle with William Cutting's Natives gang for control of New York City's Five Points, Sirocco helped him in escaping from the Natives. In 1862, 16 years later, Sirocco reunited with his old friend. At this point, he had become an associate of Cutting alongside many other former Dead Rabbits, and he introduced Amsterdam to Cutting anonymously, as Vallon would surely be killed by his father's killer. Sirocco's introduction led to Vallon rising in the ranks of the Natives and gaining Cutting's trust, but he became jealous of his friend when he had sex with a woman named Jenny Everdeane, whon Sirocco was infatuated with. Sirocco decided to rat him out to Cutting, who had Vallon maimed and exiled. Months later, when Vallon decided to come out of hiding, Sirocco admitted his betrayal to Amsterdam, who told him that he did not want to see him again. Johnny was caught by Cutting's minion Liam McGloin as he was walking in the square, and he was brought before Cutting, who decided to punish Vallon and the Dead Rabbits' resurgence by impaling Sirocco on a fence. He was run through with an iron pike and put on the fence, and when Vallon arrived, Sirocco begged his friend to perform a mercy killing. Vallon killed his old friend with a pistol, putting him out of his misery.